Four of the infected patients died after developing complications linked to severe pre-existing illnesses, while health officials said hospitals across Andhra Pradesh have been placed on alert and five samples are undergoing genome sequencing.
Claiming that Odisha is fully prepared to tackle any possible resurgence of COVID-19, Health and Family Welfare Minister Mukesh Mahaling said on Tuesday that the public has no reason to panic as the state has implemented all necessary preparedness measures.
Following a new COVID-19 case in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, the health department has appealed to the public to remain vigilant.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that just as the people of the country united to confront the global COVID-19 pandemic, a similar sense of collective responsibility and national spirit is now needed amid the evolving situation in West Asia.
Odisha, endowed with a huge tourism potential, has recorded a substantial increase in the footfall of foreign tourists to coastal state in recent years after a considerable decline in 2020 and 2021 due to the outbreak of Covid-19.
But the latest spike in cases in seven states of the country has raised the concern among experts that the two new mutant variations of the virus, which have been detected in Kerala, Maharashtra and Telengana, may lead to a fresh wave of the pandemic in the country, which had seen a substantial slowdown of the spread of the coronavirus between September and January.
City doctors attribute this uptick to peoples complacency and their not following corona protocols.
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant expressed concern over the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the state.
For starters, her confirmation is in itself a major positive as the former speed skater and track cyclist has the second-highest Olympic appearances of any Japanese athlete, having represented her country in four consecutive Winter Olympics from 1984 to 1994 and in three consecutive Summer Olympics from 1988 to 1996.
The six new imported cases all have remained in managed isolation facilities in Auckland and Christchurch, said a ministry statement, Xinhua reported.
